From the Archives

As Lalit Modi, one of the world's most powerful sports impresarios who
soared in the delusion of his own infallibility, hurtles down to the
inevitability of infamy, his story of power and hubris merges with the
larger narrative of a national passion play that unites the shirtless
and the pinstriped.

Food faddists will tell you that this meal is a perfectly balanced
diet. A similar lunch and a light breakfast would add up to that ideal
figure of 2,200 calories daily. Just right to keep you healthy.

The 88-year-old CPI(M)General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet may
have been the architect of the UPA but now it is the second line of
leaders, all in their 50s, that is calling the shots both inside the
organisation and outside.

A new twist was added to the mystery last fortnight by the Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry which is believed to have
"concluded" that Netaji did not die in an air crash in Taiwan on August
18, 1945.